Provider Data Catalog

Birthing Friendly Hospitals with Geocoded Addresses

A list of all hospitals that have been registered with Medicare and meet the criteria for the birthing friendly designation.

Freshness

Last posted
Period covered
Update frequency

Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Jul 28, 2026.

Columns 7

The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.

ColumnWhat it meansType
namenametext
addraddrtext
citycitytext
statestatetext
zipziptext
latlattext
lonlontext

At a glance

Catalog
Provider Data Catalog
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rows
2,263
Columns
7
State column
state
Topics
Hospitals
Contact
FeedbackDataCatalog@cms.hhs.gov

API

Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/hbf-map/0?limit=10

To keep only one state, filter on the state column.

CMS's description

A list of all hospitals that have been registered with Medicare and meet the criteria for the birthing friendly designation.

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:hbf-map. This record as JSON.

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